Chapter 580

Virtual world,

Defense and Offense Tournament Arena No. 000001.

This was a location similar to Zhen'an City—a prosperous city protected by a city wall over thirty meters high.

Outside the city wall was a gray fog of war, within which pairs of scarlet eyes were hidden.

Swish—

With a flash of light, Xu Jingming was teleported onto the city wall.

"Is this the arena for the Defense and Offense Tournament?" Xu Jingming examined his surroundings carefully.

The surrounding environment was roughly similar to the front-line battlefield of Zhen'an City, with the only difference being.

Zhen'an City had a large army stationed there, and when the beast tide attacked, they would defend against the invasion together.

But in this Defense and Offense Tournament arena, there was only him.

"Contestant No. 000001 Xu Jingming, behind you is the city you need to protect.

The beast tide will launch attacks intermittently. The further it progresses, the larger the beast tide and the higher the level of the beasts.

When the city is breached, the match is considered over."

A grand voice rang out from the cloudless sky.

Xu Jingming also took a step, stood at the very edge of the city wall, and looked outside.

At this moment, over a hundred beasts emerged from the gray fog of war outside the city wall.

These beasts were of various species, but their ranks were very regular.

There were only 10 Rank 3 beasts, and the rest were all at the peak of Rank 2.

"Roar—"

"Awoo—"

"......"

As soon as the hundred-plus beasts appeared, they roared and launched a charge toward this side!

Rank 3 beasts were nothing to Xu Jingming now.

After the beast group entered the attack range of his Doushen Doushen Shenlei, Xu Jingming simply unleashed a basic psychic burst and killed all the beasts.

The supplies provided for the Defense and Offense Tournament included 15 energy bars, intended to be one per day, corresponding to three meals a day to replenish the psychic's consumption.

But the early-stage beasts posed no pressure on Xu Jingming at all.

Therefore, he didn't eat any energy bars on the first day, planning to save them for later.

On the first day of the Defense and Offense Tournament, there were a total of 20 waves of beast invasions.

When the first day ended, out of 100,000 contestants, fewer than 40,000 remained.

By the end of the second day, 10,000 remained......

By the end of the third day, 5,000 remained......

As time passed, the beast tide became increasingly fierce, and the number of surviving contestants decreased rapidly.

When time reached the fifth day, fewer than a hundred contestants were still participating in the Defense and Offense Tournament!

"Thunder Emperor! Thunder Emperor!"

"Saint! Saint!"

"......"

When time reached 12:00 PM on the fifth day, out of 100,000 contestants, only Xu Jingming and Catherine remained in the competition.

In the stadium's holographic projection, only the images of the two of them remained.

Countless audience members were cheering for them, their voices resounding throughout the entire stadium.

Arena No. 02,

Catherine had already entered the twelve-winged Divine Descent state.

She was seen floating in mid-air, surrounded by sacred light, with dense swarms of peak Rank 6 beasts below her.

There were thousands of them!

In the surrounding sky, there were even more avian beast groups gathered together like dark clouds.

However, these were not the most troublesome; the most troublesome were the 10 Rank 7 low-level King-class avian beasts among them!

Some of these King-class beasts were simply thick-skinned, while others could manipulate different elements to attack.

Combined with the ground beast army and the avian beast army in the sky attacking together,

They were constantly draining Catherine's psychic power and stamina, and she felt she was reaching her limit!

"Sanctified Judgment!!"

Hum—

Scorching sacred light surged outward, instantly burning a massive hole through the dense beast swarm!

But those 10 Rank 7 King-class beasts only suffered superficial wounds.

They didn't attack either; they just circled around Catherine, constantly ordering the beast army to surround and kill her.

"These damn beasts!" Catherine couldn't help but grit her teeth.

There were actually more than 10 of these Rank 7 King-class beasts in this wave—there were a full 15!

It was just that after she killed 5 of them, the remaining 10 didn't dare to attack rashly and just arranged for the beast swarm to wear her down.

Another ten-plus minutes passed, and when Catherine finally couldn't hold on any longer,

The 10 King-class beasts swarmed forward and tore her to pieces.

"I persisted for a full 30-plus minutes under the siege of 15 Rank 7 King-class beasts and thousands of peak Rank 6 beasts.

With this, my performance will definitely be better than Xu Jingming's!"

Her consciousness vanished from the virtual world, and Catherine, returning to the real world, hurriedly put on her consciousness helmet again to re-enter the Genius Tournament arena.

"Oh my god! Great Xia's Xu Jingming is too strong!"

"Fighting 15 Rank 7 low-level King-class beasts alone—this is too terrifying!"

"Sh*t! Is Great Xia's Xu Jingming even human? He's simply a violent spell turret!"

"......"

Returning to the spectator stands, Catherine didn't get to hear the congratulations she expected for taking first place in the Defense and Offense Tournament.

Instead, she saw the surrounding audience from the Holy See.

All of them were staring fixedly at the holographic projection at the top of the stadium, occasionally letting out exclamations.

Catherine looked over as well and discovered that in the holographic projection,

Xu Jingming had already entered the Thunderstorm state, and the phantom of the Thunder God above his head was emitting a terrifying aura.

Crackle, pop—

The golden thunder ring behind Xu Jingming was spinning crazily.

Thunderball, Heavenly Thunder, Lightning Chain......

One spell-type combat technique after another was thrown out, and the entire screen had almost turned into a sea of golden thunder.

The same King-class beasts that had eliminated Catherine, and the same dense swarms of peak Rank 6 beasts,

Were being one-sidedly crushed and annihilated before Xu Jingming!

The original 15 beasts had been killed by Xu Jingming until only 6 remained!

Even these remaining six beasts were extremely wretched and could be killed by Xu Jingming at any moment.

"This? ！！"

Catherine widened her eyes and let out an involuntary low cry.

Xu Jingming persisted even longer than she did?! How is this possible!!

Isn't he? How is his endurance even stronger than hers?

Even now, he still had abundant stamina and psychic power to fight and slaughter with full force.

This is simply unbelievable!

"Saint, you're back?"

Hearing the sound, the surrounding members of the Holy See finally noticed that Catherine had logged back in and called out respectfully.

"Tell me."

Catherine stared fixedly at the holographic projection with her emerald eyes and asked in a low voice:

"Tell me, how can he be so persistent?!"

"This......"

The several white people around looked at each other, and in the end, they could only smile bitterly:

"We don't know the specific reason either; we only saw that.

Every time Xu Jingming consumed energy bars or psychic recovery pills, it was later than you."